Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

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"One cannot live entirely in the past, yet sometimes the past lives more vividly than the present."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"The past informs us; it should not imprison us."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Time spent in meaningful work is never wasted."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Time is a gift, not a burden; use it wisely."
Booth Tarkington
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"Time lost can never be recovered; use it consciously."
Booth Tarkington
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"Time spent in worry is time wasted from living."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"There are no times that are not times of trouble for those in trouble."
O. Henry
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"Time is the only thing we cannot spend faster than we earn it."
O. Henry
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"Time flies when you're having fun, but it crawls when you're waiting."
O. Henry
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"Life is too short and too precious to waste in resenting the past."
Kate Chopin
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"Time is a river of events, and as soon as a thing has been seen it is carried away."
Booth Tarkington
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"Time cannot be retrieved once spent, so waste it not on trivial pursuits."
Upton Sinclair
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"The time to enjoy a European trip is while you are having it."
Jack London
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"Time spent on genuine work is never wasted, even if the results seem small."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The time to begin is always now, not tomorrow."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Time tells all secrets."
O. Henry
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"I have no sense of time, and I find it hard to plan for anything."
Gertrude Stein
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"Time passes more slowly for those who truly observe it."
Booth Tarkington
B
"The past cannot be changed, only understood and accepted."
Booth Tarkington
B
"Time is the one resource we cannot manufacture."
Booth Tarkington
J
"The time to enjoy a European trip is while you are on it."
Jack London
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"The remedy for all wrongs is time and wisdom."
Upton Sinclair
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not yet old enough to turn them down on the grounds of age."
T.S. Eliot
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"In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
T.S. Eliot
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"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
T.S. Eliot
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"I grow old. I grow old. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."
T.S. Eliot
"Time does not heal; it merely adds distance to our wounds."
Sherwood Anderson
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"The glory of the world passes away."
Ezra Pound
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"Time cannot take what it did not give."
Ezra Pound
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"Time and identity, these are the questions."
Gertrude Stein